
Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law

David Sella-Villa (South Carolina), Mock Job Talk Scheduling Poll Some candidates entering the U.S. legal academic market have a lot of people in their corner: mentors who read their job talk paper, colleagues who sit through practice runs, friends who explain what an appointments committee is really asking. Others go in without any of that.…
The new 2026-27 U.S. News Tax Rankings include the tax programs at 194 law schools (the faculty survey had a 52% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 NYU 2 Georgetown 3 Florida 3 Northwestern 5 Virginia 6 Michigan 7 Columbia 8 Boston College 8 Harvard 8 Loyola-L.A. 8 UC-Irvine 12 Chicago…
The SSRN tax download rankings are broken and may never return
The new 2025-26 U.S. News Tax Rankings include the tax programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 NYU 2 Florida 3 Georgetown 3 Northwestern 5 Virginia 6 Chicago 6 Michigan 8 Columbia 8 UC-Irvine 10 Duke 10 UCLA 12 Boston College…